No Middle Ground

by Isabeau (mrrocke@ucdavis.edu)



Archive: M_A; else ask, please.

Category: Humor/Parody

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: None, 'cept possibly that you shouldn't take a mouthful of coke/tea/other-beverage right before reading this.

Summary: Qui-Gon has a problem with sex, and then a problem without sex.

Feedback: Please.

Disclaimer: Every penny I'm making off of this goes to the true owner of our boys, George Lucas. 'Course, since I'm not making even a single penny, that won't be very much. And as much as I'd like to own them, wishing does not make it so.

Author's note: Some of the lines herein may look familiar. Yes, this is in response to the "Lines you won't see in a Q/O slashfic"; and yes, of course I therefore had to stick 'em all in. At least, I don't think I forgot any... And yes, this is terribly random.



"Mace, I've got a problem."

Mace Windu blinked at the unusual panic in his friend's voice. Normally, Qui-Gon Jinn was the epitome of Jedi calmness. Now, he was...well, desperate. And even more worrisome, his tunic seemed to be on backwards.

"You forgot how to get dressed?" Mace hazarded.

Qui-Gon glared at him, then glanced down at his tunic and flushed. "I had to get out of my quarters in a hurry. Look...Mace, I've got a horny nineteen-year-old Padawan on my tail. Literally. All he wants to do is sex, sex, sex."

"That doesn't sound too bad."

"Mace!"

"Sorry. But it doesn't. I mean, Obi-Wan is very, ah, attractive, and..."

"...and I'm a Jedi, not a sex machine."

"You sure about that? Ow." Mace rubbed his shin. "No kicking, Qui-Gon. Fine, I'll help you. What do you want me to do?"

"Convince Obi-Wan not to keep wanting sex with me. I don't care how you do it-- medicines, keep him in a healing trance for the next twenty years, mind-whammy him, whatever. Just so I can get some sleep for once."

Mace blinked dubiously. "Are you sure that's a good idea? You know what Master Yoda says. 'Mind-whammying your Padawan, dangerous it can be.'"

"Yoda never said that."

"Well, no, but he probably would if he'd thought of it. It's a good principle, anyway. What if changing Obi-Wan's attitude has other effects?"

"Like what, other than me getting some peaceful sleep?"

Mace shrugged. "Well, we'll find out, anyway."

"Thanks, Mace."

"Don't mention it."




As always, Qui-Gon had dinner in his quarters. Rarely, though, was it this quiet. Qui-Gon smiled. "Well, Padawan."

"Yes, Master?"

"What do you want to do after dinner?"

The night before, Obi-Wan's answer would have been on the order of sexsexsexsexsex. Tonight, he just shrugged, not looking up from the meika fruit that was their dessert. "I was thinking of perhaps spending some time reading."

"No sex?"

"Not tonight, Master, I have a headache."

Qui-Gon nodded gravely. "As you wish." /Thanks, Mace,/ he thought, snickering quietly to himself.

Obi-Wan licked meika juice off his fingers, treating each with solemn care. Qui-Gon suddenly felt his heart race. "Mmm. Obi-Wan. Are you sure you don't want sex?"

"That's what I said, yes."

Qui-Gon felt himself frowning, and quickly reassembled his face back into calm-Jedi-Master mode. This was what he wanted; time without Obi-Wan chasing him like a cat in heat, time without an over-energetic Padawan demanding sex at every free moment. So why did he suddenly feel empty?

"Good night, Padawan."

"'Night, Master."

Sigh.




After a couple days, Qui-Gon's emptiness had turned out to an all-out longing. "Sex?" he pleaded, looking at his Padawan in what he hoped was a seductive manner.

"No sex," Obi-Wan said, frowning a little at his datapad. "I have to study up on Therendian politics for next week's mission."

"Please?"

I'm sorry, my job is more important than sex."

"Maybe just a little soul bond, then?" Qui-Gon asked hopefully.

"No, Master, I don't want to create a soul bond with you." Obi-Wan sounded impatient.

"It's not that bad, really. I mean, I've heard it can be quite nice."

"You're too old."

"That doesn't matter. The age is our bodies, but souls, who we really are, last eternally; and therefore, our souls are the same age."

"Actually, Master, age differences do matter. Perhaps for casual sex, it matters very little, except that those who are younger tend to be both more energetic and enthusiastic and less experienced, which has more to do with physical age than soul age. But for soul bonds, age is important. You are so inconceivably much older than I am that, by tying my fate to yours, I am more likely to die sooner than I would unbonded."

"But a Jedi's life is so unpredictable that you could die tomorrow, even though you are still young."

"Even then, I am less likely to die on a mission than you are, since I am young and quick and agile, whereas you are getting older and slower and more vulnerable to attacks."

"Now I have a headache," Qui-Gon muttered.




"Sex, Padawan. Now."

Obi-Wan didn't flinch at the order. "I'm sorry," he said, sounding not at all sorry-- or, for that matter, even interested. "I can't get my boots off."

"You haven't even tried," Qui-Gon snarled, and used the Force to yank Obi-Wan's boots off.

"I really prefer women?" Obi-Wan tried, in a high-pitched and slightly insincere squeak.

"You don't blink at them, even when they're parading naked in front of you."

"Has that ever happened?" Obi-Wan asked, momentarily sidetracked.

"You didn't even notice?"

"Nope."

"I thought you preferred women."

"Guess not," Obi-Wan said with a shrug.

"Sex?"

"No, thanks."




"Master, have I ever mentioned I don't like long hair or beards?"

"No," Qui-Gon said, not really processing what his Padawan said. Words were so irrelevant-- particularly when a naked Obi-Wan was nestling against him, nuzzling, and working his way slowly down. It wasn't quite sex, and was rather frustrating for the not-quite-ness, but it was a compromise Qui-Gon was willing to take.

"Mmm." Obi-Wan ventured lower. "Master," he observed mildly, "you have a very small penis."

"Do I, now."

"Yeah."

Obi-Wan's braid brushed against Qui-Gon's groin, tickling lightly, and the sensation drove away any resentment at the comment. Groaning, Qui-Gon thrust his hips up, needing more contact. "Padawan-- Obi-Wan-- take me--"

"What?"

"You've done this before-- please--" and again, he thrust up, wanting his Padawan.

"You don't expect me to put that--" Obi-Wan ran one finger up Qui-Gon's cock, ignoring the shuddering moan-- "in my mouth, do you?"

"Uh." Qui-Gon tried to think straight, but straight was more of a squiggle. "Well. It doesn't have to be your mouth...there are other places..." As words failed, he resorted to sending mental images. Very detailed ones. Very nice ones.

"Oh." Obi-Wan blinked. "Oh. Um, ow? Master, I know I've never told you this, but I'm frightened of anal penetration."

"I thought you said I had a small penis."

"So?"

"Penetration isn't that bad with a small penis, now is it?"

"Well. Uh. It frightens me anyway."

"If you say so," Qui-Gon said.

"...and rimming disgusts me."

"Indeed."

"You sound amused."

"Do I? Terribly sorry. It's just...you seemed to enjoy it so much, before."

"Well, yeah, but that was before. Now, ew."

Qui-Gon sighed. "I'll have to have a talk with someone, I think," he murmured. "Go to sleep, Padawan."

"Yes, Master."




"Mace."

"Qui-Gon," Mace said, looking innocent.

"Whatever you did to Obi-Wan, I want it undone."

Mace raised his eyebrows. "What, didn't it work?"

"It did. Too well. I want things the way they were."

Mace crossed his arms and smirked. "Now, what did I tell you about meddling with peoples' minds?"

"I'm just setting things right," Qui-Gon said, just as innocently.

"And have you learned your lesson?"

"Yes, Mace," Qui-Gon droned, "you're right, you're always right, you're perfection itself, can we get on with it please?"

"Long's you remember that."

"...as right as bantha poodoo..."

"I heard that."

"Never mind. Will you help me?"

"What do I look like, Qui-Gon, a plot device?"

"Yes. Help me? Please?"

"Of course. I'm your friend." Mace smiled, bowed, and left.

"Glad to hear it," Qui-Gon muttered, and after a quick look around to make sure no one was watching, he stuck his tongue out at Mace's retreating back.




"Good evening, Master."

"Good evening, Padawan."

Qui-Gon waited, and then cautiously asked, "What will we do tonight?"

"Well, we could meditate on the, ah, nature of the Force as it pertains to the, er, Alkzzian ecological system."

"We could, indeed," Qui-Gon said, repressing a sigh.

"Or we could have sex," Obi-Wan said, straightfaced.

"That is, indeed, another possibility."

"Do you ever say sentences that don't contain the word 'indeed'?"

"Indeed not."

Obi-Wan swatted him, and Qui-Gon laughed. "So, sex?"

"Sex most definitely."




"We've run out of lube, we have to stop now."

"Oh." Obi-Wan paused briefly, and then smiled. "We don't need lube for--"

"No." Qui-Gon nudged Obi-Wan's hand away. "No more, not tonight. I'm an old man--"

"You're not old."

"Glad to hear it. But my body seems to think I'm old. I've already orgasmed once, I can't get hard again tonight."

"You look pretty hard, Master."

"It's an illusion."

"I see."

"So you don't think I'm old?"

"'Course not. Oh, and I do like long hair. Sorry for saying those things earlier. I don't know what came over me. And anal penetration really doesn't frighten me. Much."

Qui-Gon nipped at Obi-Wan's hand. "If you keep doing that, my hair will snarl."

"Sorry," Obi-Wan said, laughing. "Are you sure we're out of lube?"

"Quite sure."

"Damn." Obi-Wan rubbed his hips against his Master suggestively. "Well, we're Jedi. We're inventive. I'm sure we can invent something."

"Not tonight."

"You said that. I think tonight's good." Obi-Wan smiled, very very sweetly. "Oh, Maaaa-sterrrr..."

"Yes, Padawan?"

"Is that a lightsabre in your pants, or are you glad to see me?"

"Grr."

"It wasn't that bad," Obi-Wan protested, laughing, squirming out of reach of Qui-Gon's tickling hands.

"I'm not even wearing pants...and this looks nothing like a lightsabre."

"Oh. Well, my Master knows best."

"Yes, and your Master says it's time for sleep."

"But I want sex."

"Obi-Wan. Dearest." Qui-Gon moved his Padawan's hand away, again. "I, uh, I think you're handsome, but I'm in love with Bant."

"Bant."

"Right."

"Well, let's see if I can change your mind." Obi-Wan's head centered carefully over Qui-Gon's groin and then went down.

"Obi-W-- argh..."




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